Lift apparatus



S. R. FEIST LIFT APPARATUS Jam 23, 1951 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed May e, 194e ffornqg Patented Jan. 23, 1951 orifice i ,l LIFT APPARATUS Samuel R. Feist, Wichita, Kans., assigner of onethird to Tom Harley, Jr., Wichita, Kans.`

Application May 6, 1946, Serial No. 667,707

6 Claims.

one location to another with substantially come plete freedom from shoclrs or jars to a person carried thereby.

y 4An additional object of the invention is to provide a vdevice of this kind wherein the lifting mechanism is of a character whereby the lifting element will be effectively held in desired selected position.

` The invention consists in the details of construction and inthe combination and arrangement or the several parts of my improved lift apparatus whereby certain important advantages are at tained, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order that my invention may be better understood, I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the laccompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure l is a view in perspective of a lifting device constructed in accordance with` an embodiment of the invention;

Figure 2 is a view in perspective of a lifting device constructed in accordance with another embodiment of the invention.

j ln the embodiment of invention as illustrated in Figure F denotes a substantially Veshaped bottom .frame having its apexy :forwardly disposed and operatively engaged with and underlying the apex portion oi the frame F is a caster structure i wherein the wheel 2 is provided with a rubber tire 3.

The apex portion of the frame F is provided with upstanding ears i between which is secured by a bolt 5 or `the like the lower end portion of an upstanding tubular post 6 of desired length and in which threads from above an elongated rod l. The upper extremity of the rod 'i is provided with means, such as a hand crank l8r whereby the rod 'l may be rotated to raise and lower the same as may be desired.

, 2 Y ber I4 of the frame T and the apex portion of such frame is a strengthening bar l5 lwhich may be welded or otherwise securely held in -applied position.

The rear corners of the bottom frame F have rigidly connected therewith the lower end portions of the vertically disposed tubular standards it in which telescopically engage from above the elongated bars i?. Each of these bars I1 is hingedly connected, as at i8, between the ears i9 depending from the rear corners of the top trame T.

The bars il at points spaced lengthwise thereof are provided therethrough with the openings 26 which are caused to selectively register with the aligned openings 2i in the upper portions of the standards it and through which registering openings are engaged holding shank 22 of any desired character. The openings 2G and 2! through the medium of the Shanks 22 allow the bar l? to be held in desired selected vertical adjustment.

The lower portions of the standards I6 .are provided With the rea wardly disposed vertically spa-ced rigid arms 23, said arms being two in num ber on each standard. Between each pair of arms 23 is engaged a tubular sleeve 2li carried by the inner end portion of an elongated straight base beam 25. This beam 25, as herein disclosed, engages the sleeve 2li at the lower portion thereof and disposed through the sleeve 2d and the beam 25 is a pintle'z, whereby the beam E5 may be laterally swung into selected adjusted position as the requirements of practice may prefer. interposed between the upper portion of the sieeve 2t and the free end portion of the associated beam 25 is a bracing strut 2l. Y

The beams desired points intermediate length thereof are provided with substanopposed and inwardly directed ears 28. To there ears 2S are pivotaily connected, as at 28, the forwardly disposed rigid iinlss Bt forwardly converging and overlying a rearwardly disposed ear 3i carried by the central portion of the rear :member of the base frame F.

the underhung casters the wheels 3l of which are preferably provided with rubber tires 38.

The top frame T at the extremities of the base member Hl thereof is provided with the rearwardly disposed elongated parallel members 39 which are adapted to be threaded through the sheaths lill at the end portion of a flexible seat l. These members 3s immediately adjacent tc their free ends are provided with upstanding sleeves i2 to permit engagement therewith of a back-rest 43. With the bacl -rest d3 removed, the seat il may be readily applied or removed, and when the seat el is removed, the device can be readily and conveniently employed as a wallsng aid for an invalid.

In practice, the seat di is properly positioned under the patient and the device then rolled into place with the bottom beams e5 either under the bed or at each side of a chair. In the placing of the device, the members 3S are threaded through the sheaths di?. The shaft 'l is then rotated to effect a downward swinging movement fra-ine T, with a resultant upward swinging movement of the members 39 whereby the occupant of the seat 4l will be gently and smoothly raised to the desired height. The device with the passenger then be moved to the destination desired. In re turning the patient to a bed or chair, the foregoing operation will be reversed.

It will be noted that various of the parts can be readily separated when desired which will enable the device, when not in use, to be conveniently stored in a comparatively small space or the device can be readily carried in an entornom bile or other vehicle.

In Figure 2 of the drawings is illustrated an embodiment of the invention which is particularly desirable for raising and moving a patient its side arms il in parallelism and at right angles to the intermediate member i5 and extending upwardly from the junction of the arms and termediate member d5 are the vertically dis osed tubular posts lii. The opposite end portions of the side arms it of the bottoni frame B carry the underhung casters l? wherein the wheels i3 are preferably provided with rubber tires Coacting with the central portion ci the intermediate member :i5 and the arms of the base frame B are the bracing struts while coacting with the upper portions of the posts and the centra-l portions of the intermediate niember i5 and of the side arms dit are the bracing members 5l. Telescopically engaging fy above within the posts d are the elongated bars provided with longitudinally spaced cpeni gs 53 for selected register with the opposed openings 5d in the upper end portions oi the posts and through which registering openings a holding shank 55 is adapted to passed whereby the bars 52 may be effectively held in desired selected vertical adjustment.

The upper ends of the bars 52 are provided with the aligned bearings 56 which rotatably support a shaft el. One end portion of the shaft is operatively engaged through a conventional gear assembly, as generally indicated at and which assembly is herein disclosed as within a ng carried by the outer end portion of one of the bearings 55 and is manually operated by a crank d or otherwise as may be preferred.

IExtending laterally from the shaft adjacent the opposite ends thereof and in the gen eral direction as the side members M of botlio tom frame B are the duplicate rock arms 26, herein disclosed as disposed on a predetermined upward curvature. The outer extremities of these arms Sl have pivotally connected, as at $2, to the opposite sides thereof the depending links 53.

The lower end portions of these links 63 are pivotally connected, as at 54, to the opposite sides of the central portions of the upwardly curved duplicate yokes 65. The extremities of these yokes are provided with the aligned sleeves B6 through which are directed the elongated and parallel bars El. These bars 6'! are adapted to have effective supporting connection as may be eferred with a patient when in a prone position and by proper rotation of the shaft 5l, said patient may be readily and conveniently raised or lowered in an easy and gentle manner.

as the invention is not limited as to the means e'nployed for effecting the desired operative suport of the patient, a disclosure of any,7 such means is believed unnecessary.

I claim:

l. A lift device of the character stated, comprising a bottom frame including a cross member, relatively long side members each attached at one end to an end of the cross member and converging elements each attached at one end to an end of the cross member to form a triangular unit of which the cross member forms the base, roller supports attached to the underside of the bottom frame, upstanding tubular members each secured at one end to an end of the cross member, an nip-standing tubular member secured at one end to the convergent ends of said elements, the last named upstanding member being interiorly screw threaded at its upper end, a bar telescopicallv inserted into the upper end of each of two upstanding tubular members, a top cross member connecting the upper ends of said bars, a pair of spaced arms each secured at one end to the upper end of a bar and disposed over the side members of the bottom frame, a screw threadably inserted into the upper end of the second mentioned tubular member, means for rotating the screw, a bearing for the screw in which the screw freely rotates, and bracing arms extending from the telescopic bars to and connected with said bearing.

2. A lift device of the character described in claim l, with hinge means connecting said side members with the cross member whereby said side members may be swung laterally on vertical axes.

3. A liit device of the character described in laim i, with hinge means connecting said side "ibers with the cross member whereby said e members may be swung laterally on vertical axes, bracing arms each pivotally attached at end to a side member, said bracing arms each ng longitudinally slotted at its other end, the slotted ends of the bracing arms being in overlapping relation, an upstanding shank carried by the cross member substantially midway between its ends and extending through the overlapping slotted arms, and a nut threaded onto the shank forcamping engagement with the adjacent ends of the bracing arms.

lift device of the character described comprising a bottom frame including a cross member, side members each connected at one end to said frame at one end of said cross member and extending in a direction away from the frame, an underslung rotary ground engaging element carried by the frame, an underslung rotary ground engaging element carried by each side member adjacent to the end thereof remote from the frame, an upstanding tubular member carried by said frame at each end of said cross member, said tubular members being spaced apart transversely of the frame, a pair of bars each telescopically inserted into the upper end of each tubular member, horizontally spaced arms each pivotally connected at one end to one of said l bars for vertical swinging and extending in the same general direction as and at an elevation above a side member, means connected with said spaced arms and positioned at the opposite side of said frame cross member from said side members for effecting vertical swinging movement of the spaced arms about their pivots, and means carried by said spaced arms for supporting a person.

5. A lift device of the character stated in claim 4, wherein the side members are mounted for lateral swinging movement, and means for holding said members in selected lateral swinging adjustment.

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UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 503,105 Tingley Aug. 8, 1893 y1,349,674 Jenkins Aug. 17, 1920 2,218,883 Jones Oct. 22, 1940 2,234,483 Sutton Mar. 11, 1941 2,261,297 Seib Nov. 4, 1941 2,339,007 Gahm Jan. 11, 1944 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 301,958 Great Britain .Dec. 10, 1928 

